A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years. When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, ...

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.

Ancient bacteria might be sleeping beneath the surface of Mars, where it has been shielded from the harsh radiation of space for millions of years, according to new research.

Mars has not had widespread liquid water for 2 billion years, so even if ancient life did evolve there, 280 million years is still too short to suggest that the planet hosts a plethora of bacteria ...

One of Earth’s toughest microbes could survive on Mars, lying dormant beneath the surface, for 280 million years, new research has shown.The findings increase the probability that microbial life ...

An Algerian scientist splits his gaze between microbes and Mars Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for evidence of ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

All across Mars, even in some of its coldest regions, the presence of liquid water thus could have allowed the appearance of microbes similar to the earliest ones that emerged on Earth—ones ...

A temperate Mars of the past. Dry and irradiated, the Martian surface would challenge even the hardiest of Earth’s microbes to survive for more than a moment.

Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. One specific … ...